We used CD DAE 99 v0.21 beta and EAC v0.9 prebeta 11 software in order to
check the DAE performance of the drive with various AudioCDs (both pressed
and CDR). The posted DAE results are the average of both applications, but
the CPU usage was only taken from CD DAE 99, since EAC occupies the system
a lot more. As a last note, we used the "BURST" reading mode of
EAC. We made a full CD Rip starting from the first to the last track of the
CD. The Average DAE reported speed along with the CPU Usage is displayed in
the test graphs.

- DAE features

We
used EAC v0.9 prebeta 11 to examine the drive's features. As the program reported,
the drive doesn't "Caching" data, supports "Accurate Stream"
and doesn't include "C2" error info. All 4 tested drives supports
up to 40x (CAV) DAE speed.

The Mitsumi CR-4809TE performed very well with pressed Audio CDs but gets
the last place since the competition is faster. The drive's average reading
DAE ripping speed is 28.4X and also reported 7errors at the end of the process:

The Mitsumi CR-4809TE improved its performance with CDR media and now gets
the third place with LiteOn LTR-24102B. Its average reading performance is
28.8X and again produced 2 errors while reading the test disc:

- EAC Secure Extract Ripping mode

After many requests from numerous visitors we have added the EAC's secure
extract ripping mode results, which ensures maximum produced WAV quality.
Note that for each drive we used the build-in detection function:

Tested Drives

Average DAE Speed (X)

Pressed

CDR

TEAC CD-W524E

5.6

4.5

PleXWriter PX-W2410A

8.7

9.6

Mitsumi CR-4809TE

9.9

11.4

LiteOn LTR-24102B

9.4

9.6

- Advanced DAE Quality

The Mitsumi CR-4809TE gets a 100 score (best) in the Nero CD Speed Advanced
DAE test. The drive's average reading speed was 29.15x and no errors were
produced. As the following picture shows, the drive can read CD-Text/SubChannel
Data:

- Bad CDR Media results

Despite the fact that CD Speed 99 Advanced DAE test stretches drive's mechanism
to the max, we decided to do real life tests with a scratched disc. The disc
was dirty, and with some light scratches, enough in order cause problems to
most of the tested drives. We used CD DAE 99 software to rip the whole disc
(756539616 sectors) and the results were very interesting:

Average Speed (X)

Errors

Errors Of Total Disc (%)

PleXWriter PX-W2410A

27.7

2946403

0.39

LiteOn LTR-24102B

25.7

345

0.00

Mitsumi CR-4809TE

25.6

24

0.00

TEAC CD-W524E

26.5

1

0.00

The Mitsumi CR-4809TE performed very well with our bad CDR test disc. The
drive reports only 24 errors while reading our test disc at full speed! The
only drive that beats it is the TEAC CD-W524E.

- Ripping 90 and 99mins AudioCDs

The Mitsumi CR-4809TE recognizes the 90min AudioCDs without any problems.
However it seems to have a problem with the 99min CDs: